NEW YORK, July 20 [PRNewswire] --
The American Jewish Committee is
applauding today's ruling of the Court of Appeal in
London, which refused Holocaust denier David
Irving's application to appeal the
verdict
against him last year, when he sued American
professor Deborah Lipstadt for
libel.

The Court of Appeal ruling upheld Judge
Charles Gray's lower court judgment that Irving
had distorted and manipulated history in order to
promote his anti-Semitic, racist, and far-right
politics, and that Irving is a pro-Nazi polemicist.
Judge Gray held that Dr. Lipstadt was justified in
calling Mr. Irving a Holocaust denier in her book
"Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on
Truth and Memory."

As the Court of Appeal noted today, Irving
didn't even challenge any of Judge Gray's findings
about his anti-Semitism, racism, and far-right
extremist associations.

"While the ruling today will not end Holocaust
denial, it is a significant victory for truth,"
said the American Jewish Committee. "Professor
Lipstadt should be commended for her courage in
exposing the lies and agenda of Holocaust
deniers."

The American Jewish Committee played a
significant role in establishing the web site
Holocaustdenialontrial.org,
now affiliated with Emory University. The site
houses the expert reports and trial submissions
that proved the case against Irving, and showed his
close connections with many American extremists,
including the neo-Nazi group National Alliance, and
the white supremacist and former Klansman David
Duke.